Today as we drove to the baby shower for Fritz and Magalee, Maddie and I talked about leaving for Christmas. She and Parker have been sending weekly shopping lists to my mom for food she should have ready in the fridge i.e. egg nog, white milk, chocolate milk, turkey lunch meat, pepper jack cheese and sour dough bread for starters. As we drove she said, I am going to miss seeing all the adventures in Haiti. Like the tap-taps, guys laying in the middle of the street changing tires, dodging all the pot poles as we drive, the ugly paintings for sale everywhere, people washing themselves in the gutter, cow pies in the middle of the road, goats every place you look, the smell of burning trash everyday, Baby singing in the morning and Rosemine playing her sax everyday. Pretty soon we started laughing! None of these things seem like you should miss them but they are part of our life here.
I asked her where she would rather live? Haiti, she said. It is always interesting and you never see this stuff in the States.
True, very true!
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